| Time | 2010 November 17 |
| 8 am onwards | Registration |
| 8.30 to 1.00 pm | Symposium for ethics committee members. |
| 8.30 to 1.00 pm | Publication ethics workshop |
| 2.00 to 3.30 pm | Panel discussion- Regulation of medical education and practice |
| 4.00 to 6.00 pm | Inauguration |
| Time | 2010 November 18 |
| 8.00 to 9.00 am | Registration |
| 9.00 to 10.30 am | Plenary I: Structural issues- equity and rights |
| 10.30 to 11.00 am | Tea |
| 11.00 am to 12.30 pm | Parallel paper presentations |
| Group P1: Research among vulnerable groups | |
| Group P2: Building bioethics theory | |
| Group P3: Ethical challenges in first contact care | |
| Group P4: Health finance and access to health care | |
| Group P5: Medical education | |
| 12.30 to 1.30 pm | Lunch |
| 1.30 to 3.00 pm | Parallel paper presentations |
| Group P6: Participation and informed consent in research | |
| Group P7: Disability and ethics | |
| Group P8: A gender critique of the health system | |
| Group P9: Organising health services for equity and justice | |
| Group P10: Humanising the patient-provider relationship | |
| 3.00 to 3.30 pm | Tea |
| 3.30 to 5.00 pm | Parallel workshops |
| W1: Ethics committees and proposal review: Ethics over science? | |
| W2: Mainstreaming ethics and gender in tuberculosis control programmes in urban settings: meeting the challenges of class disparity, gender discrimination and migration and displacement | |
| W3: Surreptitious medication for mentally ill: What are the rules of the game? | |
| W4: Health care reforms and rationing in India: ethical issues and challenges | |
| W5: Role of health care providers in tobacco control | |
| W6: The informed consent process in clinical trials | |
| W7: Building accountability in the health system: experiences from Tamil Nadu | |
| Time | 2010 November 19 |
| 8.30 to 9.00 am | Registration |
| 9.00 to 10.30 am | Plenary II: Policy and law framework |
| 10.30 to 11.00 am | Tea |
| 11.00 am to 12.30 pm | Parallel paper presentations |
| Group P11: Assisted reproductive technology | |
| Group P12: Governance of maternal and child health programmes | |
| Group P13: Politics of global health | |
| Group P14: Decision making at the end of life | |
| Group P15: Experiments in public health | |
| 12.30 to 1.30 pm | Lunch |
| 1.30 to 3.00 pm | Parallel paper presentations |
| Group P16: Regulating the use of human tissues | |
| Group P17: Responding to public health emergencies | |
| Group P18: International collaborations in health research and delivery | |
| Group P19: Ethics in designing of health research | |
| Group P20: Parallel poster presentations | |
| 3.00 to 3.30 pm | Tea |
| 3.30 to 5.00 pm | Parallel workshops |
| W8: Structuring and running an institutional ethics committee: learning from experience | |
| W9: Community-based monitoring; institutionalising public accountability | |
| W10: Ethics case study writing | |
| W11: The use of advance directives in legislation for mental illness | |
| W12: Informed consent process in clinical trials | |
| W13: Updating guidance for ethics review of research involving human participants: a time to introduce standards? | |
| W14: Teaching bioethics through films | |
| Time | 2010 November 20 |
| 8.30 to 9.00 am | Registration |
| 9.00 to 10.30 am | Parallel paper presentations |
| P21:Ethical problems in everyday medical practice | |
| P22: Ethics of monitoring ethics: research ethics boards | |
| P23: Health information in the public domain | |
| P24: Sweta Surve: Media coverage of the official response to a malaria outbreak in Mumbai | |
| P25: Surveillance and epidemiological research | |
| 10.30 to 11.00 am | Tea |
| 11.00 am to 12.30 pm | Plenary III: Implementation and monitoring mechanisms |
| 1.00 to 2.00 pm | Valedictory session |